i’ve always viewed people’s opinions on piracy as a litmus test of their empathy for people, especially in the global south, who don’t have access to many things. because unless you grew up knowing what it’s like, then you really don’t know what it’s like.
Tibos processing their identity through Adventure Time characters or wtv, however western or imperfect isn’t a failure of taste. Nor a lesser path to self-understanding.
Honestly, a warm and what was clearly a personal post from the OP did not deserve such unkind response.
You call yourself a writer. Why do I get the impression that 1.) you are unaware that acknowledgments ≠ public thesis statement about the state of Filipino queer culture; and 2.) lesbian upbringings (and all experiences in general) aren’t monolithic
You are fortunate to have a resourced exp. But representation access is a privilege, not a given. Kids like me (I’m from a rural, conservative Laguna town) only get subtext and -coded characters from prepaid cables, mostly western-made. WLW films were mostly banned or monitored.
She grew up navigating her queerness through those fictional lesbian characters which is why they’re in her thesis acknowldgement. That’s her own lived experience. It’s not meant to “leverage” anything against actual lesbian artists. Unclench and stop barking at the wrong tree.
some thoughts:
people are saying this is anti-feminist without actually realizing that this is a lived experience and proof of how corrosive a patriarchal society is; that anyone living in a female body could only realize their capacity for desirability through objectification
Okay, so about last night. I was in Gateway 2 when I saw they were rolling out a red carpet near Cinema 11. And I saw a poster for a film that I'd never heard of before.